Taylor kept her eyes locked on Stephanie, but started to crack a smile listening to Akashi. It was weird, as polite and reserved and dignified as Akashi was, she could still talk some trash when she had to.

As Stephanie raised her shinai, Taylor tensed, bent her knees slightly, and was ready to react. Of course she was expecting the stick to come down at her face, but wasn't entirely surprised that Stephanie led with a kick instead. The moment she started to move, Taylor began to rush in at her, almost running directly into the kick in the process. The girl's foot buried into the side of her stomach and Taylor winced. If she weren't in front of so many people, with her pride on the line, the force of the kick might've dropped her.

Before Stephanie could make use of her shinai, Taylor caught the ankle she had almost kicked through her stomach, stepped one foot behind Stephanie's standing leg, and gave her a hard shove to dump her on the mat. She looked down at her, still not taking her eyes off hers, and sneered.

"Like Akashi said, you suck without your stick." She said, trying her very best to stand up straight and not sound like she'd just had the wind knocked out of her. "Don't insult us by bringing that shit to our match. If you're not confident, you should train harder." Really, she just wanted to curl up in a ball on the floor and wait for the fire in her stomach to go out. She forced a grin and looked at Akashi and Naoko.

"You guys done making friends? Good. Now get out of our ring." She said, the latter part to Naoko and Stephanie.

Naoko raised and eyebrow and looked at Akashi intensely for a second. Then she leaned in and grabed hold of the champ's wrist to lower the microphone so she could whisper to the sumo cutie without the crowd hearing."Be careful Akashi-san...or you will end like RikidÃ¶zan..." she said with a wicked smile and then turned around to leave without bowing.

Stephanie was on the floor after being taken down by Taylor before she had chance to slam her shinai on the back of the punk girl. But the redhead didn't stayed in the floor for long. She rolled back and got up extremley fast, raising her shinai again trying to smack Taylor in the face with it. But the wooden sword was suddenly stop before even getting close to Taylor's face by Naoko's hand.

Stephanie blinked, looking surprised at her friend holding the shinai. "We are leaving" Naoko said without looking into Stephanie's eyes that were full of fury. The redhead pulled her shinai away from Naoko's hand violently and turned to Taylor. "This isn't your ring, bitch." Stephanie yelled, taking her shinai from the tips and with a forceful move snapping it in two and throwing the pieces at Taylor's feet. "This is your grave..."

And said that the two White Deads left the ring in silent...save for the booming booing from the crowd.

Taylor put a hand over her mouth in shock. "Oh, no! You broke your stick!" Then she giggled as the two made their exit from the ring.

"Congratulations on your temper tantrum, but I am not impressed with your performance." Taylor taunted in an approximation of a French-Canadian accent. "I hope your man-friend there doesn't beat you for embarrassing her like that. Leave that to me, okay?"

She picked up the two halves of the shinai and threw them after the girls, but they fell short. Then she turned back to Akashi and remarked, into her mic, "Poor things. They look like they're scared to death." Then more laughter.

Considering the whole thing a giant success, Taylor made her exit with Akashi, beaming with pride. She made a fast victory lap around the ring, flirted with some fans, and once they reached the ramp she leaped onto Akashi's back for a piggyback ride the rest of the way.

Akashi's fists clenched at Naoko's parting words. Her eyes narrowed and she became solemn as the Yanki turned. "If I'm cut open there will be no black, only red. Is the same true for you, Naoko-san?" She muttered, basically to herself. Akashi didn't mind threats, she was used to them but Naoko's threat wasn't the usual declaration of superiority and it made Akashi angry. Engulfed in hr thoughts, she was visibly startled when Taylor called her out and the Sumo shook her head to clear the cobwebs and offered Taylor a grin. "Hai." Akashi said quietly. "As they should be."

She then began to step out of the ring as Taylor did a few more laps and received kudos from the fans. She let out a sigh while Taylor's attention was turned but when the punky girl leaped onto her back, she raised a fist in the air and charged up the ramp and took the duo into the backstage.